The phrase "authoritarian features" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe characteristics or traits that are typical of an authoritarian system or regime.
Example: "The government's authoritarian features have raised concerns about civil liberties and human rights."
Alternatives: "autocratic traits" or "dictatorial characteristics".
The authoritarian features of the Putin era, however, are not like those of either tsarist or Soviet times.
Russia today, for all its abysmal and authoritarian features, is not a replica of Stalin's Russia in the thirties.
Today's Russia, thank goodness, lacks many of the worst features of Sovietism, but the courts are a very sorry aspect of this mixed-bag system, with its predominantly authoritarian features.
The fourth group of photos turns away from such unofficial, DIY additions to the fence to portray its authoritarian features.
And Pope John Paul II, his robust personality and deep personal spirituality masked authoritarian features that the Catholic Church is still wrangling with, not the least of which is his appointment of apparatchiks as bishops rather than strong, creative leaders.
This is social "typology" that is projected onto the space: its conflictive-democratic or rather pacified-authoritarian features (or, more to the point, where the conflicts are repressed) find their configuration in space organisation (Fregolent and Savino 2013).
Yet by operating in some of the most authoritarian states featuring some of the most opaque corporate-governance relationships, open data has the potential to empower civil society while simultaneously offering invaluable information to both government and non-government actors.
Different mixes of authoritarian and democratic features have distinct historical roots, and they may have different implications for economic performance, human rights, and the prospects for democracy.
There is ample evidence that these "electoral revolutions" reflected the cross-national diffusion of a distinctive model of regime change that was developed elsewhere and that was designed to promote democratization in authoritarian political contexts featuring semi-competitive elections.
And although this practice tends to be associated with Russia — the word kompromat is a portmanteau of the Russian words for "compromising" and "information" — it is a common feature of authoritarian and semiauthoritarian nations around the world.
"Tyrants, authoritarian leaders, are not permanent features.
