Damien D. Cheong

Narratives and Governance: The Eroding Corporatist Narrative of Governance in Singapore

Abstract This article takes a critical look at the corporatist narrative of governance in Singapore and argues that the corporatist narrative is losing its narrative rationality. Narrative rationality is being lost through large-scale immigration to Singapore. The implication of this loss of narrative rationality is significant for continued rule by the Peoples Action Party (PAP), which will have to struggle to either repair the narrative rationality of corporatism or seek another alternative narrative that is more intelligible in order to continue to maintain the partys narrative dominance of the political space in Singapore.