"normative force" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this expression when referring to the power, influence, or authority of a norm or set of norms on a given situation or behavior. For example: "The normative force of the cultural mores in this small town greatly influences the behavior of its inhabitants."
The moral theory of contractarianism claims that moral norms derive their normative force from the idea of contract or mutual agreement.
The normative force of instrumental norms characteristically is contingent upon the agent's having a certain goal, their intending, or desiring, to reach a certain end, while that of non-instrumental norms is not so dependent.
Schmitt argues that it would be wrong to treat such particular constitutional norms as possessing the same normative force as the people's decision for a concrete form of political existence, which is expressed in the basic principles implicit in the constitution.
Thus for Hart too the legal system is norms all the way down, but at its root is a social norm that has the kind of normative force that customs have.
Gilbert responds to such arguments by noting that, even if they show that conventions have a tendency to acquire normative force, they do not show that normativity is essential to convention.
The latter two questions seem deeply connected, for population members typically enforce social behaviors and rules having normative force by sanctions placed on those failing to comply with the relevant norm; and the presence of sanctions, if suitably strong, explains the persistence of the norm.
One can even say that the European Union has slowly become a "normative" force in the world in reaction to the evolution of America's power.
Although the term sometimes signifies merely what is usual or average, in discussions of mental illness it most often has normative force.
To capture this idea of personal liberty, and to give it some normative force, Fried asks us to imagine ourselves surrounded by a protective "bubble" of rights, carefully negotiating the terms of every relationship and attachment.
He rejected the idea that law's normative force could derive from its moral status: like all theorists in the legal-positivist tradition, he acknowledged that laws could fail to be morally justified.
Kelsen, a fierce opponent of natural-law theories, identified the central problem of the philosophy of law as how to explain the normative force of law i.e., law's claim to rightfully tell people what they ought to do (such that, for example, they have an obligation of obedience to the law).
