The phrase "authoritarian policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a policy that is characterized by the concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people.
Example: "The government's authoritarian policy has led to widespread protests and calls for democratic reforms."
Alternatives: "oppressive policy" or "dictatorial policy".
But he gradually came to adopt an authoritarian policy.
But as the deputy chair of the opposition CHP (Republican People's Party), Faruk Logoglu, pointed out, their perception of the state of affairs in Turkey was "sadly out of focus", and ignored the fact that the AKP government pursued an authoritarian policy of gradual Islamisation, leading to the erosion of Turkish democracy and secularism.
It is rich of Polly Toynbee to refer to "promiscuous Lib Dems keeping Tories in power", and the "Lib Dem failure to align themselves firmly against the right", after a decade in which Labour has adopted one rightwing or authoritarian policy after another: selectivity in schools, widening the gap between rich and poor, illiberal legislation at home and gunboat diplomacy abroad.
The cited text doesn't contain any of the labored Gallic-isms at issue in Triple Canopy's blockbuster; it is, as he himself says, rather prosaic ("The West's behavior aims at disrupting the attention of Chinese society and attempts to modify the value system of the Chinese people"), merely an example of how a warped version of anti-colonialism has been used to justify authoritarian policy.
How to reconcile young people's relative attraction to authoritarian policies but relative lack of interest in the candidate most openly peddling authoritarianism (Trump)?
Also the government continues to adopt more authoritarian policies.
Maliki lost Sunni Iraq through his sectarian and authoritarian policies.
Yet they are threatened by the continuation of draconian and authoritarian policies.
As the head of that triumvirate, Ky provoked widespread opposition to his authoritarian policies.
Lee mentions, in passing, some of his battles with the Western press over his authoritarian policies.
Innitzer upheld the authoritarian policies of Engelbert Dollfuss, prime minister of Austria (1932 34), a representative of the Christian Socialists.
