Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan.

• Superior document: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies ; v.11
• Author: Marshall, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies,, 1984.; Ã1984.
• Year of Publication: 1984
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Collective Decisions and Rural Society -- Harmony, Unanimity, and Collective Decision Making -- Hamlet Society and Productive Exchange Relations -- Chapter 2: Productive Exchange, Mutual Investment, and Collective Decisions: a Theory of Group Decision Making -- The Paradox of Price -- Defection-reducing Mechanisms -- Forms of Exchange and Defection Reduction -- Productive Exchange, Mutual Investment, and Rate of Exchange -- Productive Exchange, Mutual Investment, and Collective Decision Making -- Chapter 3: Hamlet Social Organization and Financial Structure -- Hamlet Membership and Recruitment -- Hamlet Internal Organization -- Hamlet Offices -- Subhamlet Groups -- Funding the Hamlet -- Chapter 4: Decisions -- Case 1: Softball Equipment -- Case 2: seimaiki (Rice Polisher) -- Case 3: Fire Pump -- Case 4: City Water -- Case 5: Fire Extinguishers, Gas Rings, and a Rice Cooker -- Case 6: The English Class -- Case 7: The Usoda bon odori -- Chapter 5: Decisions: Division and Solidarity in Hamlet Society -- Decision Mode and Participant Orientation -- Minimal Criteria for Consent -- Hidden Costs and Structural Implications -- Incommensurability of Issues -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- Notes to Chapters -- Bibliography.