Soft State
The Soft State is a term introduced by Gunnar Myrdal in his "Asian Drama" to describe a general societal “indiscipline” prevalent in South Asia and by extension much of the developing world - in comparison to kind of "modern state" that had emerged in Europe. Myrdal used the term to describe: For Myrdal a major causal factor was colonial powers' destruction of many of the traditional centers of local power and influence and failure to create viable alternatives. Coupled with this was the development of an attitude of disobedience to any authority which was central to the nationalist politics  resistance. This attitude persisted after independence. Such soft states are seen as unlikely to capable of imposing the right development policies and would be unwilling to act against corruption at all levels. Soft state paradigm. According to the soft state paradigm, there are two types of statehood: empirical and juridical, or soft.