An Analysis Of Hardliners And Soft Liners

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“Hard liners” and “Soft Liners”
In an authoritarian regime there are two kinds of people having their feet stick to the power, the soft-liner and the hardliners both groups present different chemistry in an authoritarian regime. More specifically the authors of the book identify these two groups as “duros” hardliners and blandos as soft-liners. The duros or hardliners are the ones who still believe that continuation of the authoritarian regimes in some cases are possible by ignoring and rejecting democratic reforms. In an authoritative regime these hardliners are composed of various fictions and layers and cling to the idea of position of authoritarian for various purpose and reasons. Some adopt this position to maintain and keep their positions …show more content…

But according to the authors the main nucleus of this fiction are likely to hold on to their undercover positions and once the transition toward democracy is started, this group will likely be the main source of the conspiracies and future coups by trying to eliminate the or tackle the transitions of authoritarian regimes into more liberalized and democratic regime. Shortly on can say hardliners are the ones who are just taken up in their own survival and long terms projects for the survival of an authoritarian regime by eliminating all forms of democracy. On the others hand, contrary to the hardliners the soft liners blandos are the one who are eager and keen to a soft process of democracy from an authoritarian system. Due to their increase awareness of system implantation toward democracy they are called soft liners. Soft liners in some case tolerate and keep their eyes blind on the arbitrary action of the populations. But as hardliners it should be said that among the soft liners the fractions varies, majority of the soft liners seek liberalization, some soft liners are in favor of the thorough liberalization toward democracy. But some blandos in order to keep their positions they are just in favor limited freedom and

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