Second, if Mr. Bush truly values his relationship with Mr. Putin, then he should speak candidly about the democratic criteria for genuine partnership between our nations.
Countries that apply to join the EU first have to meet a set of basic democratic criteria, and have to put aside old territorial disputes.
But at the heart of the problem is something that I have written about before: the absence in Israeli law of an inclusively democratic conception of citizenship, let alone democratic criteria for immigration.
If Brown does not use democratic criteria to guide the process of democratic renewal he has so rightly put at the core of his vision, he will indeed - as Ashley puts it - be "dead, finished, over".
"But we all know", Dahl states (1982: 107), "that the institutions, processes, and conditions of polyarchy in democratic countries fall far short of meeting democratic criteria".
might want to add another box to check on its list of criteria: democratic support.
In short, Mr Erdogan's Turkey is well on the path to fulfilling the democratic and other criteria needed to qualify for the EU.In this section The man to beat Bush?
The Democratic bill meets that criterion.
Mr. Edwards, in discussing his approach to the race, noted that in 2004, a major criterion for Democratic voters was whether their nominee would be a strong general election candidate.
