'Full of Sound and Fury': Three Decades of Parliamentary Politics in Mauritius

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Title:	'Full of Sound and Fury': Three Decades of Parliamentary Politics in Mauritius
Author:	Srebrnik, Henry
Year:	2002
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	28
Issue:	2
Period:	June
Pages:	277-289
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Mauritius
Subjects:	elections 2000 multiparty systems Politics and Government
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/823385
Abstract:	This article describes parliamentary and electoral politics in Mauritius since independence. In 2000, Mauritius held its seventh free election since independence, resulting in the third democratic transfer of power in its history. It is one of the most ethnically heterogeneous States in the world and its multiparty system is characterized by a bewildering kaleidoscope of parties, often constituted for little more than electoral purposes. Class politics also have their place, although attempts to substitute left-wing ideology for communalism have met with only indifferent success. Although there has been an increase in ethnic tension recently, the country had only three prime ministers in 33 years, and its political culture remains robustly democratic. Notes, ref., sum.