However, there are a number of factors that militate against a stable democratic order in Ghana. It has been argued that one grave obstacle to the survival of democracy is the non realisation of its material conditions. For instance Lipset, argues that “the more well to do a country is, the greater the chances that it will sustain democracy”. He argues further that if the hypothesis is tested by the usual indexes of economic development, one finds that the average wealth, degree of industrialisation and urbanisation, and the level of education are indeed much higher for the more democratic nations. This is a statement of fact,for relatively speaking in Europe and North America where wealth is the rule and poverty the exception, threats to democracy are very minimal.This contrasts sharply with the African situation.