"democracies" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a set of countries in which the power is held by the people, such as: "Many nations across the world are considered democracies, where the people have the right to elect their leaders."
One of the explicit goals of European enlargement to the east was to consolidate liberal democracies (or, in the case of Romania, complete the transition to liberal democracy in the first place).
Now it is an urgent challenge for the European commission, which appeared to assume that once inside the club of European liberal democracies, nobody could imagine anything better.
The detention of Mr Miranda subverts the benefit of the doubt that liberal democracies ask for when they arm themselves against terrorism.
The same, however, can be said for most democracies.
It is also possible to win by a landslide in open democracies.
"The newly independent Muslim states were democracies," Anwar said.
Gay marriage is currently illegal in all Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries (barring South Africa); liberal western democracies notable for not having passed equal marriage legislation include Germany, Italy, Australia and the US, where gay marriage is considered a state issue and is still prohibited in 13 of the country's 50 states.
The rapid shift in the military balance of power away from the democracies is but a reflection of the latter half of that assertion.
That's not the case with some of the emerging democracies of Europe.
He cited the EU's successful expansion in the 1980s, which saw the rightwing dictatorships of southern Europe Greece, Portugal and Spainn) become democracies.
"Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges," Hilton wrote.
