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Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner. It presents authoritative analyses of a dozen key policy issues currently testing the nation:

-domestic economic growth

-America's role in the world

-the budget deficit

-China relations

-health care

-Afghanistan and Pakistan

-federalism

-Iran

-reforming government institutions

-the Middle East

-climate change

-terrorism

This is truly Brookings at its best —independent expert analysis, presented in an accessible manner and offering viable solutions.

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. Benjamin Wittes
  3. pp. 1-6
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  1. Part 1: At Home
  1. Restoring Economic Growth: The New President Must Nurse a Fragile Recovery
  2. Martin Neil Baily
  3. pp. 9-26
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  1. Tackling the Budget Deficit: The Next President Must Sove the U.S. Deficit Crisis
  2. Ron Haskins
  3. pp. 27-42
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  1. Curing Health Care: The Next President Should Complete, Not Abandon, Obama's Reform
  2. Alice M. Rivlin
  3. pp. 43-60
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  1. Remaking Federalism to Remake the Economy: The Next President Should Harness the Power of States and Metros
  2. Bruce Katz
  3. pp. 61-78
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  1. Reforming Institutions: The Next President Should Not Miss This Moment to Make Government Work
  2. William A . Galston
  3. pp. 79-96
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  1. Part 2: Abroad
  1. Reviving American Leadership: The Next President Should Continue on the Path Obama Has Set
  2. Bruce Jones, Jane Esberg, and Thomas Wright
  3. pp. 99-115
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  1. Establishing Credibility and Trust: The Next President Must Manage America's Most Important Relationship
  2. Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Jonathan D. Pollack
  3. pp. 116-131
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  1. Slogging Through: The Next President Must Address the Crisis in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  2. Michael E. O’Hanlon and Bruce Riedel
  3. pp. 132-150
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  1. Keeping Iran in Check: The Next President Must Focus on Achievable Goals
  2. Suzanne Maloney
  3. pp. 151-168
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  1. Prioritizing Democracy: How the Next President Should Re-Orient U.S. Policy in the Middle East
  2. Shadi Hamid
  3. pp. 169-186
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  1. Part 3: Worldwide
  1. Addressing Climate Policy: The Next President Should Link a Carbon Tax to Fiscal and Environmental Reform
  2. Ted Gayer
  3. pp. 189-203
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  1. Keeping on Offense: The Next President Should Keep after al Qaeda but Mend Relations with Congress on Terrorism
  2. Benjamin Wittes and Daniel L. Byman
  3. pp. 204-220
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 221-224
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 225-237
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  1. Back Cover
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