Resumen de ‘Rendering’ Ethnicity in the Mauritius National Assembly: Continuities and Codes

David Hirschmann

• The focus of this paper is a debate in the Mauritius National Assembly concerning a proposed autonomous revenue authority. The purpose is to apply and build on a selection of a few key contributions to the literature on ‘representation’, more so those focused on rendering. Works of Pitkin (1967, The Concept of Representation, University of California Press: Berkeley), Hall (1997, The Work of Representation, Sage and The Open University: London, pp. 13–74), Mansbridge (2003, American Political Science Review, 97, 515–528), Saward (2005, Governance and the Transformation of Political Representation, Policy Press University of Bristol: Bristol, UK, pp. 179–196; 2009, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 17, 1–22; 2010, The Representative Claim, Oxford University Press: Oxford; 2011, The Wider Canvas: Representation and Democracy in State and Society, University of Cambridge Press: Cambridge, pp. 74–95) and Piscopo (2011, Parliamentary Affairs, 63, 448–472) are discussed. It illustrates the interaction between changing scholarly constructs of representation and rendering and a fuller comprehension of practice. Furthermore, it seeks to add new insights that arise from this case relating mainly to continuities and codes.