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If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to restricted content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. However, aspiration also has a dark side and can be manipulated to dodge accountability, postpone action, and serve private, rather than public, goals. In the hands of skilled political actors, aspiration does essential work in both facilitating agreement and mobilizing social action that create change in the world. We identify three core features of aspiration that undergird its theoretical utility: lofty goals, change over time, and transformation through imagination. In this article, we develop the concept theoretically and argue that aspiration creates a distinct “aspirational politics” that differs from our international relations models of both norm-driven social activism and interest-driven rational choice. Yet political scientists have spent little time theorizing aspiration-what it is, how it relates to other concepts, and the kinds of effects it creates. It articulates goals, affirms identities and values, and structures action at all levels of social life. Aspiration is an essential component of politics.
