The phrase "authoritarian shift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a change or transition towards more authoritarian governance or practices in a political or social context.
Example: "The recent policies implemented by the government indicate a significant authoritarian shift in their approach to civil liberties."
Alternatives: "authoritarian transition" or "move towards authoritarianism".
For many Angolans, this authoritarian shift is nothing new.
The Iranian strategy was blocked by the growing authoritarian shift of the regime of Tehran after the spring of 2009 ; the Russian strategy was blocked by the war in Georgia in the summer of 2008.
According to Amanda Taub in a Vox article, political scientists Marc Hetherington and Johnathan Weiler trace the authoritarian shift in the Republican Party to the 1960s when the Party adapted a strategy to win disaffected whites in Southern states and a "law and order" platform in response to the race riots at the end of the 60s.
Kuhn doesn't go that far, but he does give the process of paradigm shift an authoritarian cast, even comparing scientific groups to the ruling classes of Orwell's "1984".
In Latin America and the Middle East, the clash of authoritarian regimes and revolutionary shifts toward freedom and equality still determine the landscape of today, with young people since before the 1990s feeling or remembering the impact of the terror and barbarity of multiple dictatorships and needing to redefine themselves as modern individuals.
The kingdom is aggressively emphasizing the relative stability of monarchies, part of an effort to avert any drastic shift from the authoritarian model, which would generate uncomfortable questions about the pace of political and social change at home.
The shift from centralised authoritarian rule to decentralised democracy in Indonesia saw businessmen, gangsters and corrupt politicians become entrenched in parliament and regional assemblies, which scholars have described as an oligarchy represented through "money politics" and "party cartels".
Russia, Cambodia, and other rapidly developing countries, too, have shifted in an authoritarian direction.
Arab publics fear that if the conflict is deemed unimportant, it means that the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has a green light to dictate his terms, while Arab governments worry that attention could shift to their own authoritarian political structures.
We appeared to be shifting our support from one authoritarian Pharaoh to the next".
In another sign of the shifting landscape in the Middle East, another authoritarian government made a concession to protesters as the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, said neither he nor his son would run for office in the next election.
