The phrase "authoritarian takeover" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a government or organization is seized by authoritarian control, often involving the suppression of dissent and civil liberties.
Example: "The country experienced an authoritarian takeover, leading to widespread protests and international condemnation."
Alternatives: "dictatorial seizure" or "tyrannical takeover".
Mr. Gligorov ruled out a return to the military rule that ended in 1974 in Greece, but conceded that a successful authoritarian takeover "could be a very appealing model for a lot of Balkan politicians".
The conditions are ripe: a venal elite, increasingly capable armed forces and a disaffected population wishing for stability, if need be under the sort of strongman Iraq knows only too well.Back to authoritarianismBut more likely than a coup is an authoritarian takeover by politicians and generals acting together.
If wealth inequality persists at current levels, he said, that creates the risk of "an autocratic, authoritarian takeover of America, no doubt, a crypto-fascist America".
In such contexts, authoritarian takeovers are to be expected, if not welcomed.
He cites the rise of Nazism in Germany after World War I as an example of how austerity-stricken economies are susceptible to authoritarian takeovers.
Once again venality and superstition provide fertile ground for a takeover by authoritarian forces.
Lenin and the Soviet military commander Leon Trotsky knew that, unless the workers of France and Germany joined in, their own revolution was doomed – and they knew from studying the French Revolution of 1789 exactly what kind of doom it faced: either to be crushed by foreign-backed armies or face a takeover by an authoritarian tendency from within.
Could the change lead to an Internet takeover by an authoritarian government, or perhaps a stultified bureaucratic entity that bends to the will of incumbent powers?
By the next day, it was clear the attempted coup had failed ― in part because even Erdogan's critics in Turkey preferred his increasingly authoritarian rule to a military takeover.
Talk abounds of an Islamist takeover or a relapse into authoritarian rule.
But I would like to remind you that in Germany in the late 19th century and in the period up to the Nazi takeover in 1933 the most illiberal and authoritarian positions were found in the most unlikely of places we might think: the universities, the faculties, and the student body.
