Abstract
Vincent Chua and his colleagues, Gillian Koh, Tan Ern Ser, and Drew Shih, exerted collective effort in organizing a monograph entitled Social Capital in Singapore: The Power of Network Diversity published under the Politics in Asia series of the Routledge. Considering the relative dearth of a relevant literature regarding the particular theme, readers who are interested in how social capital has been formed in Singapore, a multiethnic and economically affluent city state, will find the book an essential reading. As the book befittingly devotes the whole first chapter to explicate intricate characteristics of the Singaporean polity, it is impossible to comprehend the process of social capital production at the interpersonal and organizational levels if one is ignorant about the state-society and state-citizens relationship in Singapore. The tripartite state policies that underpin the Singaporean society are public housing, meritocracy, and racial harmony as stipulated in Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 7....
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