In political science, nonpartisan denotes an election, event or organization in which the participants don't declare or don't formally have a political party affiliation. Some nonpartisan organizations are truly such; others are nominally nonpartisan but in fact are generally identifiable with a political party. For example, the National Rifle Association's technically a nonpartisan organization, but at the national level at least functions almost as an adjunct of the United States Republican… (More on Nonpartisan)