Abstract
Since the invention of Citizen Juries and Planning Cell, almost forty years have passed. The social experiments using Minipublics are now entering into the new stage. The past experiments have shown that communicative actions complied with discursive ethics can be created under artificially controlled settings. However, it is not yet successful for collective judgments made at micro deliberation spaces to be socially accepted at macro level. To find a solution to solve micro-macro gap of collective will formation is a challenging task for the next stage. This paper is to explore solutions for this problem with focusing on counter-factuality, a unique character of Minipublics.
