VILLAGE LEADERSHIP 57 suitable administrative units carefully designed to harmonize the requirements of centralized planning with the realities of regional variations, local needs, resources and iixterest?. The concept of political responsibility has also been used in an entirely different sense, which is most vividly brought out by Max Weber in his famous essay "Politics as Vocation'^8. Weber describes the characteristics of a political leader and refers to "feeling of responsibility5^ as one of them. He is not concerned with the objective mechanism of control on the political leaders but with the fate of the community and the fortunes of his people. Role Responsibility While it may be agreed that commitment to certain values may predispose a leader to discharge his role with greater responsibility and hence contribute to higher social and personal outputs, explanations based exclusively on value charactetistics would obviously have limited explanatory power. For a fuller understanding of outputs, it will be helpful to take into account the power dynamics of the community, and the autonomy of action enjoyed by the leadership in the political system as also the personal effectiveness of a leader in terms of his ability in fact to do what he considers important. The extent to which the leaders understand and share the social objectives of emergent society, and are willing and capable of working towards their realization, will undoubtedly irfluence their effectiveness as agents of change. The constituents of leaders' role responsibility would seem to comprise the following: i) The leader's sense of obligation and commitment to local community, party or the nation; desire to carry out obligations and to perform duties adequately. ii) The sense of personal satisfaction, attaining satisfactory performance of the job, extent of perceived environmental support, confidence in leaders and the people and the perception of the viability of local institutions. iii) The leaders' concept of his role within the context of the sociopolitical system. This would include the programme and activities the leader feels he should carry out or sponsor and those he actually does. It would also include the level of socio-political system with which he identifies, the support structure and the like. iv) Realistic assessment and proper articulation of community needs and resources on the one hand, and efforts to educate and modify public opinion and mobilize collective efforts towards the realization of desired social objectives on the other. v) Understanding and acceptance of national objectives.4 The explanatory power of responsibility in the present study is fairly limited on account of the fact that the leaders in the sample are, on the whole, not political leaders. Indeed, the village level leaders usually think of themselves as public workers rather than as political leaders. The sense