1st Edition

Sovereignism and Populism Citizens, Voters and Parties in Western European Democracies

Edited By Linda Basile, Oscar Mazzoleni Copyright 2022
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

At a time when populism and appeal for national and popular sovereignty are on the rise – in Europe, the USA, and beyond – this volume proposes a new research agenda in political science that focuses on the linkages between populist and sovereignism in Europe. The book’s core question is to know and describe whether, how, and to what extent populism has been able to articulate the calls for... Read more

Preface

Linda Basile and Oscar Mazzoleni

Introduction: Sovereignist wine in populist bottles?

Linda Basile and Oscar Mazzoleni

1. Reclaiming national sovereignty: the case of the conservatives and the far right in Austria

Reinhard Heinisch, Annika Werner and Fabian Habersack

2. Should we stay or should we join? 30 years of Sovereignism and direct democracy in Switzerland

Sean Mueller and Anja Heidelberger

3. Economic populism and sovereignism: the economic supply of European radical right-wing populist parties

Gilles Ivaldi and Oscar Mazzoleni

4. Taking back control? Brexit, sovereignism and populism in Westminster (2015–17)

Gianfranco Baldini, Edoardo Bressanelli and Stella Gianfreda

5. ‘For whom the sovereignist bell tolls?’ Individual determinants of support for sovereignism in ten European countries

Linda Basile, Rossella Borri and Luca Verzichelli

Conclusions. The populism-sovereignism linkage: findings, theoretical implications and a new research agenda

Luca Verzichelli

Biography

Linda Basile is Research Fellow at the Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy.

Oscar Mazzoleni is Professor in Political Science and Director of the Research Observatory of Regional Politics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.