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Julio Alberto Barajas Servin

@julesbarajas.bsky.social
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Political scientist researching electoral administration, institutions & electoral law. Head of Department at Mexico’s INE. Quantitative & comparative methods. Views my own.

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📺️ #Mexico has adopted rules requiring broadcasters to flag programmes that mix news and opinion. 👀 @julesbarajas.bsky.social argues that these labels should be judged by whether the people they are meant to help notice and understand them. 👉 buff.ly/HMZAQxv
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Mexico's media labels need an audience test
Mexico has adopted rules requiring broadcasters to flag programmes that mix news and opinion. Julio Alberto Barajas Servin argues that these labels should be judged by whether the people they are mean...
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Julio Alberto Barajas Servin @julesbarajas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ve been thinking about this question for a while: when should electoral lies actually become a legal problem? I tried to work through it by looking at Wales, Canada, South Australia, France and Singapore. Glad this one found a home at the @ukcla.bsky.social
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Julio Alberto Barajas-Servin: When Electoral Lies Become Justiciable
Wales has done something unusual – it has enacted a duty to prohibit electoral lies before deciding what the prohibition will look like. Since 27 June 2026, section 13 of the Government of Wales Ac…
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Who supports martial law in a democracy? Brandon Beomseob Park & Inkwan Chung examine South Korea, finding affective polarization drives support for executive overreach. Read more: buff.ly/63rPmga @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #AffectivePolarization #ResearchNote
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On 3 December 2024, South Korea experienced an unprecedented political crisis when the president declared martial law. While the declaration was rapidly reversed and condemned by key democratic institutions, public opinion did not converge on rejection. Instead, support for—and tolerance of—the measure persisted among a nontrivial share of citizens. Why, in a democracy with functioning institutions, are some citizens willing to accept extraordinary executive measures? Using original nationwide survey data, this research shows that public support for martial law is strongly associated with affective polarization. Individuals who express strong partisan and leader-based affective alignment with the incumbent are significantly more likely to accept martial law, while those polarized in the opposite direction overwhelmingly reject it. The findings suggest that affective polarization can align evaluations of executive overreach with partisan loyalties, weakening normative constraints even in consolidated democracies where institutional safeguards continue to function effectively.
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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Interesting findings from @niemanlab.org on how the way stories are reported can shape the conversations that follow. More analytical, information-dense stories produced more reasoned discussion—but also fewer commenters.
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/08/27/b...
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Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within
Reform Party MP Danny Kruger is concerned. The UK, he says, has ‘a bloated, paralysed centre of government and a mutinous bureaucracy’; and that ‘Real power is held not by the elected government bu…
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🗳️ Eytan Ellenberg uses Israel’s fragmented party system to ask 4 questions often collapsed into one: 🏛️ can a new party enter parliament ↔️ enlarge its political bloc 📈 improve its chances of governing 📊 + reconfigure the alliances through which a majority becomes possible? 👉 buff.ly/fEnBUmf
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Why winning seats may not make a new party politically decisive
Eytan Ellenberg uses Israel’s fragmented party system to ask four questions often collapsed into one: can a new party enter parliament, enlarge its political bloc, improve its chances of governing, an...
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Raúl Trejo Delarbre @ciberfan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
La excesiva y ominosa publicidad que invade las pantallas en las transmisiones de futbol mexicano agravia a los televidentes. Defender derechos de las audiencias es garantizar calidad e integridad en las transmisiones deportivas. Mi columna en nexos trejodelarbre.nexos.com.mx/409-2/
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Audiencias: derechos, excesos… y futbol
Los Lineamientos para la protección de las audiencias presentan disposiciones que deben eliminarse o modificarse para respetar la ley, la libertad de expresión y el régimen de autorregulación. También...
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