Rodney E. Hero is Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy in the Department of Political Science at Notre Dame, where he also serves as chair of the department. His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-Tiered Pluralism (Temple, 1992), received the American Political Science Association's Ralph J. Bunche Award. He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics (1998).