'normative power' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase used to describe the power and influence of beliefs or values in a society or culture. For example, "In this community, religious values have a great deal of normative power."
Anyone with an interest in the research agenda on norm diffusion, normative power and the EU's normative dialogue with the world will find this book highly valuable, including scholars, policy makers and students of subjects including political science, European studies, international relations and international and EU law.
Through an analytical emphasis on how the EU is received and perceived in the rest of the world, the volume makes an original and ground-breaking contribution to understanding the reflexive nature of EU norm diffusion and normative power.
As indicated above, the peace and security of the international system depends upon the legitimacy and normative power of this norm, and upon the legitimacy of the UN, the institution designed to oversee its operation and enforcement.
All quality criteria ultimately derive their normative power from the same general norms and can thus be understood (more or less) as specific expressions of these norms.
But that suggests normative power is also becoming more concentrated in the two leaders, for whom norms serve as another way of reinforcing the positive feedback loops that keep them racing ahead of others.
Legitimate authority is the normative power to govern, where a normative power is the ability to change the normative situation of others.
Countering scholarly analyses of the normative powers of visual technologies, Snapshot Photography mines vernacular images for the fantasies and relationships they enable.
The minipublic is then an institutionally constructed intermediary, although it could act in such a way as to become an agent for the creation of a larger public with normative powers.
By putting consent at the center of their contracts these early modern contract theorists (1) were clearly supposing that individuals had basic normative powers over themselves before they entered into the social contract (a point that Hume [1741] stressed), and (2) brought the question of political obligation to the fore.
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.
Elaborating on the distinction drawn by Reus-Smit between realist and constructivist approaches, we distinguish normative-ideational power (influence through argumentation and suasion, dear to constructivists) from material-physical power (influence through the manipulation of threats and coercion, emphasised by realists).
