This volume proposes a new research agenda in political science that focuses on the linkages between populist and sovereignism in Europe.

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.

Preface Introduction: Sovereignist wine in populist bottles? 1. Reclaiming national sovereignty: the case of the conservatives and the far right in Austria 2. Should we stay or should we join? 30 years of Sovereignism and direct democracy in Switzerland 3. Economic populism and sovereignism: the economic supply of European radical right-wing populist parties 4. Taking back control? Brexit, sovereignism and populism in Westminster (2015-17) 5. 'For whom the sovereignist bell tolls?' Individual determinants of support for sovereignism in ten European countries Conclusions. The populism-sovereignism linkage: findings, theoretical implications and a new research agenda