ABSTRACT
One immediate objective to which efforts might be directed is the reconfiguration and alignment of actors’ representations of government and bureaucracy. This would require a simplification and clarification of divisions in authority across government and bureaucracy, and would involve a number of technical changes in practice. A dedicated adjunct to Representative’s distinct offices could take on a useful role directing and advising constituents, continuing to meet emergency payments or laying out clear paths through the bureaucracy. The notion of emotional bureaucracy has clear implications for how “developing” bureaucracies and their features may be understood, it also speaks to the “developed” world and, more especially, to highly formalised societies in the west. The chapter suggests actors have become so inured to the affective and its pervasiveness that relation-ships, rules, processes and organizations treated as if absolute are losing their significance and meaning and are being replaced by fixed, autonomous, and corporeal versions.
