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English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Abstract
On the basis of the ethnographic description of the administrative procedure initiated on the basis of the summation of a cafeteria in a federal public body, this article proposes that the weighted and creative transposition of the distance between the schema of the bureaucratic formulas and the complexity of the situations to which they are addressed is as much as their more bizarre expressions, which often result in violence and injustice. In the case in question, the analysis of which is part of a broader study on bureaucratic practices and disciplinary procedures in the public administration, two aspects stand out: on the one hand, legislative prescriptions give the process its own impetus, which penalises servers formally involved in the disappearance of the asset; at the same time, and at the same time, it triggers careful investment by different actors and bodies to contain a blind movement towards undesirable results. Those conditions make it possible to disrupt the usual consideration of discretion in the public service – which I shall call as an expression of autonomy or individual discretion – which I shall call as an expression of autonomy or individual discretion. Rather, ethnography highlights the inherently collective character of bureaucratic judgement, without which it would not be possible to implement the rules accordingly.