Here is a list of my academic publications and conference papers (selected).
and 2024, “A Place to Speak and Be Heard? Parliamentary Speech and Media Attention in Estonia, 2011–2019.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 00(0): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12457.
Casal Bértoa, Fernando, Enyedi, Zsolt, and Mölder, Martin, 2023, “Party and Party System Institutionalization: Which Comes First?”. Perspectives on Politics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723002530
Mölder, Martin, 2023, “Estonia: Political Developments and Data in 2022: Politics in the Shadow of the Russian-Ukrainian War”. European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook.
Mölder, Martin 2022, “Coping with an Anti-Establishment Surge Across the Political Spectrum: the Case of Estonia”, paper presented at the 2022 ECPR General Conference in Innsbruck, Austria.
Reiljan, Andres and Mölder, Martin 2022, “A populist or an anti-populist Zeitgeist? Mapping and explaining the asymmetric affective polarization towards the populist radical right parties”, paper presented at the 2022 ECPR General Conference in Innsbruck, Austria.
Mölder, Martin, Enyedi, Zsolt and Casal Bértoa, Fernando, 2022, “Party system closure and the liberal dimension of democracy: a double-edged sword”. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, pp.1-17.
Mölder, Martin, 2022, “Estonia: Political Developments and Data in 2021: Reform Party Back in Government”. European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook.
Mölder, Martin and Berg, Eiki, 2022, “Conflicts and Shifts in the Kremlin’s Political Discourse since the Start of the Putin Presidency (2000–2019)”. Europe-Asia Studies, pp.1-19.
Lupacheva, Tatiana and Mölder, Martin 2022, “A Place where to Talk or where to be Silent? Parliamentary Speech and Media Attention in Estonia, 2011-2019”, paper presented at the COMPTEXT 2022 conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Mölder, Martin 2021, “Estonia: Political Developments and Data in 2020”, European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, http://doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.12321
Mölder, Martin 2021, “Eesti Vabariigi Presidendi võim ja sõna”, Akadeemia, no. 6 2021, pp. 963-1010.
Mölder, Martin 2020, “Eesti erakonnad Euroopa poliitilises ruumis”, Riigikogu toimetised, nr 41, https://rito.riigikogu.ee/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/41_RiTo.pdf
Mölder, Martin 2020, “Estonia: Political Developments and Data in 2019”, European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.12274
Mölder, Martin 2019, “Estonia: Political Developments and Data for 2018”, European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.12239
Mölder, Martin 2019, “Estonia: Europe on the agenda but not at the core of the campaign” in Bolin et al. (eds.), Euroflections, DEMICOM-report nr 40, Mittuniversitetet.
Mölder, Martin 2019, “Changing Political Landscapes in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Perceptions of Political Parties”, Paper presented at the 2nd UECEP Conference, Budapest, 17. 05.2019.
Mölder, Martin 2019, “Valimisprogrammide peamised teemad ja erakondadevahelised erinevused”, in Riigikogu valimised 2019, Tartu Ülikooli kirjastus, lk 152-169.
Mölder, Martin 2019, “Sissejuhatus”, in Riigikogu valimised 2019, Tartu Ülikooli kirjastus, lk 7-18.
Mölder, Martin (ed.) 2019, Riigikogu valimised 2019, Tartu Ülikooli kirjastus.
Mölder, Martin 2019, “Eesti parteisüsteemi areng ja institutsionaliseerumine”, Juridica, 2019 (2), pp. 133−143.
Mölder, Martin 2019, “Nupud malelaual. Poliitilise ruumi analüüs ning Eesti poliitikamaastik 2019. aasta Riigikogu valimiste eelõhtul”, Akadeemia, no. 2 2019, pp. 195-226.
Mölder, Martin and Berg, Eiki 2018, “Tectonic Shifts in Russian Foreign Policy Discourse: Evidence from Quantitative Text Analysis”, paper presented at the 8th Annual Conference Strategic and Geopolitical Issues in the Contemporary World, Prague November 9th.
Mölder, Martin 2018, “Analysing European Political Spaces through Pairwise Comparisons and Multidimensional Scaling”, paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 22-25 August.
Berg, Eiki and Mölder, Martin 2018, “The politics of unpredictability: Acc/secession of Crimea and the blurring of international norms”. East European Politics, pp. 1-18.
Mölder, Martin 2018, “Estonia: Political development and data for 2017”. European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook.
Mölder, Martin 2018, “Using Topic Modelling for the Analysis of Foreign Policy Discourse: Looking into Russian-Western Relations”, paper presented at the POLTEXT Incubator Workshop, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, May 10th-11th, 2018
Enyedi, Zsolt and Mölder, Martin 2018, “Populisms in Europe: leftist, rightist, centrist and paternalist–nationalist challengers”. In Trumping the Mainstream, Routledge, pp. 68-108.
Mölder, Martin 2017, “Nähtamatu enamus. Eesti kodanike liberaalne ja konservatiivne enesemääratlus ning hoiakud 2016. ja 2017. aastal”, Akadeemia, no. 6 2017, pp. 980-1021.
Mölder, Martin 2017, „Estonia”, European Journal of Political Research. Political Data Yearbook, DOI: 10.1111/2047-8852.12155.
Mölder, Martin 2017, “Which measure of political difference between parties works better? A comparison in predicting coalition formation”, Electoral Studies, vol. 46, pp. 26-38.
Mölder, Martin 2016, „Estonia”, European Journal of Political Research. Political Data Yearbook, vol. 55, pp. 84-90.
Mölder, Martin 2016, „The Validity of the RILE Left-Right Index as a Measure of Party Policy”, Party Politics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 37-48.
Mölder, Martin 2015, “Overview of the Baltic States on the Basis of the V-Dem Dataset: A Disaggregated Perspective”, paper prepared for the seminar “Varieties of Democracy:The Baltic States in a Regional and Global Perspective”, University of Tartu, 23 October 2015.
Mölder, Martin 2015, “Political Change in Party Systems: Using the Index of Programmatic Similarity to Measure Changing Political Landscapes”, paper presented at the Manifesto Project User Conference 2015, Berlin, June 4-5.
Mölder, Martin 2014, “From Ideological Distance to Programmatic Overlap: A Non-Spatial Measure of Party Policy Difference”, paper presented at the ECPR General Conference in Glasgow, 3-6 September 2014. (A previous version of the paper was presented at the 2014 ISSP Annual Scientific Meeting, 4-7 July in Rome, Italy.)
Mölder, Martin 2014, “Type of Parliamentarism and the Political Coherence of Coalition Governments”, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Salamanca.
Berg, Eiki and Martin Mölder 2014, “When ‘Blurring’ Becomes the Norm and Secession Is Justified as the Exception. Revisiting EU and Russian Discourses in the Common Neighbourhood”, Journal of International Relations & Development, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 469-488.
Pettai, Vello ja Mölder, Martin 2013, „Estonia“ in Nations in Transit 2013, Freedom House.
Mölder, Martin 2013, „Rudy B. Andeweg, Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont (eds.) Puzzles of Government Formation: Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases(New York: Routledge, 2011)” book review, CEU Political Science Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 262-264.
Mölder, Martin and Pettai, Vello 2013, „Freedom and Democracy”, Estonian Human Development Report 2012/2013, pp. 67-73.
Mölder, Martin 2013, „Fluid Voters behind a Stabilising Party System? Investigating Party System Parameters in Estonia”, paper presented at 41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz 11 – 16 March 2013
Pettai, Vello ja Mölder, Martin 2012, „Estonia“ in Nations in Transit 2012, Freedom House.
Berg, Eiki and Mölder, Martin 2012, „Who is entitled to ‘earn sovereignty’? Legitimacy and regime support in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh”, Nations and Nationalism, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 527-545.
Mölder, Martin 2012, “Eesti Erakondade Valimisprogrammide Iseloomustus 1999-2011” [Characterization of the Election Platforms of Estonian Parties 1999-2011] in Toomla, Rein (ed.), Riigikogu Valimised 2011 [Parliamentary Elections 2011], Tartu University Press.
Mölder, Martin 2011, „Hääletamiskaalutlused 2011. aasta Riigikogu valimisel.“ Riigikogu Toimetised, 23, 56 – 61.
Pettai, Vello ja Mölder, Martin 2011, „Estonia“ in Nations in Transit 2011, Freedom House.
Berg, Eiki and Mölder, Martin 2011, “Democratization and Political Legitimacy in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh” Paper Presented at the IPSA, ECPR Joint Conference “Whatever Happened to the North-South?”, 16.02-19.02.2011
Mölder, Martin 2010, “The Meanings of Democracy in Estonia: An Analysis of Focus Group Discussions”, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 4 (1): 39-54
Pettai, Vello and Mölder, Martin, 2010, “Estonia”, Nations in Transit 2010, Freedom House
Pettai, Vello and Mölder, Martin, 2009, “Estonia”, Nations in Transit 2009, Freedom House