"normative rationale" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the reasoning or justification behind a normative decision or opinion. For example, "We need to consider the normative rationale of the decision before proceeding."
Both explanations, however, call for a correction of this current state of affairs, because of the strength of the normative rationales for PIAs.
The normative approach builds on substantive rationale, in the sense that the reason for involving stakeholders is to obtain better results, such as improved public health (Delgado et al., 2011; Fiorino, 1989; Stirling, 2008).
There is some evidence that this element may only be effective in conjunction with normative education or with a rationale or motivation for refusal and may even be counterproductive when used alone [ 28].
The normative theory or action model contains the rationale and justification of the programme [ 5].
It is to operate without the restraints and rationales imposed by a pre-existing normative political programme, which will always presume too much, sharing in its formation many aspects of the regime to be overthrown.
Finally, in order to mitigate some of the conflicting arguments in this area, we suggest the source origins of both the methodological and philosophical frameworks should be addressed to the fullest extent possible, along with clear, transparent rationale with respect to how the empirical and normative interacted to arrive at a moral conclusion.
Moreover, the normative issues implicated by certain coercive laws are so complex and contentious that any rationale for or against these laws will include claims that can be reasonably rejected secular or religious as the case might be.
As pointed out in Materials and methods, the rationale for having a normal group was not to make direct comparisons with patients but instead to generate normative mass-normalised QF MVC results from which patients could arbitrarily be stratified as "weak" or "not weak".
