The Developmental State in Mauritius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4252193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Meisenhelder (California State University, San Bernardino, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279-297 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x97002383 |
| OpenAlex | W2055738289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
THE Portuguese were the first Europeans to come across the island of Mauritius. It was found by the Dutch in 1598, and the Dutch East India Company settlement created in 1638 introduced both sugar cane and slavery. The French arrived in 1721, using slaves to clear large holdings which eventually became sugar cane plantations. Over time there emerged a colonial society of extreme inequality, where power and privilege belonged to estate planters from France while hard labour and deprivation became the lot of slaves imported from Africa. The British established political control of Mauritius in 1814 and preserved the structure of the island's economy and society with one exception: slavery was abolished in 1835 with generous compensation to slave owners. The colonial state helped to organise the importation of indentured workers from India, and by the 1860s the island had become the leading cane producer in the British Empire
Ancient history · Ceylon · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · Estate · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Portuguese · Power (physics) · Privilege (computing) · Settlement (finance) · State (computer science) · African history and culture studies · Economic Zones and Regional Development · History · Law
The Fragility of Success
Assessing temporal couplings in social-ecological island systems
Globalisation, extremism and violence in poor countries
States and Economic Development
Disempowering new Democracies and the Persistence of Poverty
The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South
Of Sweatshops and Cyclones
The ends of the developmental state
Extensive legal exceptionalism, an administrative export-processing zone and urbanization in Mauritius
Future energy transitions for bagasse cogeneration
Les entreprises en campagne
Learning from Role Models in Rwanda
The political economy of a tax haven
Democracy, History, and Economic Performance
Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Growth
Origins of the Democratic Developmental State
Probing the historical sources of the Mauritian miracle
Beyond the plantation
The blue economy in Mauritius
Labour Migration in the Global Division of Labour
Women’s Legislative Representation in Mauritius
Embedding the Colonial State
Mauritius 1938
The «great experiment» of cheap labor in Mauritius
British Colonial Policy, Local Politics, and the Origins of the Mauritian Welfare State, 1936–50
The consolidation of democracy in Mauritius
Welfare Policy Expansion in Botswana and Mauritius
Unifying Configurational Comparative Methods
The peri-urban space at work
Bureaucracy and the politics of time in state-business relations
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |