The phrase "authoritarian norm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a standard or expectation that promotes authoritarian principles or behaviors within a society or organization.
Example: "The rise of the authoritarian norm in the political landscape has led to increased censorship and suppression of dissent."
Alternatives: "authoritarian standard" or "authoritarian principle".
Part of its strength is the willingness of people to accept the dictates and certain – what I call authoritarian – norms.
Mr. Xia's experience was a striking illustration of how freedom and repression are spreading simultaneously in China, an apparent contradiction that is growing as individual and Internet- and cellphone-based communications challenge authoritarian norms.
While the democratic struggle succeeded in ending the military regime in the summer of 1987, there were entrenched authoritarian institutions and norms which could not be easily eradicated by democratic elections.
Trumpism is, by nature, an authoritarian movement that regards democratic norms as dispensable if they fail to serve political ends.
When things have gone well, it has been hailed as a rare example of a multi-sectarian state a place where everyone enjoys a cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial and mutual tolerance, as opposed to the dead-handed, centralised authoritarian power that is the Arab norm.
"I lodged the criminal complaint against them because it's the norm that leaders in authoritarian countries persecute and prosecute their citizens for telling the truth," he said during a trip to London, where his defiant reporting is being honoured by Index on Censorship, who have shortlisted him for a journalism award.
Governance by decree would become the new norm and paved the way for authoritarian forms of government.
In theory, the interaction of human-rights reporting and aid conditionality is meant to push weak, authoritarian governments like Chad's to recognize new norms and aspirations, and through them, to achieve greater stability.
One argument, which the Washington Post's Greg Sargent put forward on Wednesday, and which I find persuasive, is that the Democrats "can use the nomination fight to shine a light on Trump's authoritarian tendencies and serial undermining of our democratic norms".
The European Union has finally lost patience with Hungary, voting Wednesday to discipline Viktor Orban's authoritarian government for eroding the bloc's democratic norms.
