"perpetuate power" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the action of maintaining or preserving power. For example, "The ruling family worked to perpetually perpetuate power by any means necessary."
Such a strategy to consolidate or even perpetuate power is not exclusive to populists, of course.
Bureaucratese is a maddeningly viral kind of Unspeak engineered to deflect blame, complicate simple ideas, obscure problems, and perpetuate power relations.
These include constitutional rewrites to perpetuate power (notably in the cases of Chávez and Alberto Fujimori of Peru) and large-scale fraud (Mexico, for decades, in every charade of an election under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI).
But it's hard to build a better world, and it's especially hard when you're enmeshed in a system whose primary design goal often seems to be to perpetuate power, wealth and privilege for those who already have it.
The protests' success gripped a region whose residents have increasingly complained of governments that seem incapable of meeting their demands and are bereft of any ideology except perpetuating power.
While witch hunting might have emerged from mass panic within remote, disconnected and backward tribes historically, today, the malpractice is about perpetuating power.
Likewise, our context is characterized by ineffective political systems and a deeply embedded hierarchical structure that perpetuates power imbalances throughout the health system (5).
Throughout our interview, Poppers strongly emphasized the importance of highlighting her creative accomplishments outside of McCarthy's work, noting that to do otherwise would perpetuate the power imbalance between powerful male artists and their often less experienced female collaborators.
"If you define politics as the ability to maintain, hold and perpetuate political power, he's the best," said Mr. Booker.
When Fox and North produced a plan to reform the East India Company, which aroused fear that they intended to perpetuate their power by controlling Eastern patronage, the king reemerged as the guardian of the national interest.
But to stay in silence is to perpetuate the power structures - even as women academics are increasingly part of that power structure.
