ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the policy issues common to the articles, and discusses major points in each piece. The articles offered make clear that voting rights reform expands to touch every aspect of governance, including legislative redistricting. Voting rights policy has increased the size of the electorate by age, has addressed the members of the electorate who are differently abled, and has continued to cause changes. The chapter examines the integration of issues developed within the context of voting rights policy, which have been transformed into principles used to redraw legislative districts after each census. It focuses on highly specialized policymaking arenas; early civil and voting rights "success" in moving the issues occurred when blacks widened the scope of conflict, and moved toward collective mobilization of the African-American community in the 1950s and 1960s. Redistricting related to civil and voting rights policy opens up fundamental questions of the meaning of representation.
