**Quicklinks** [[Read the Proposal]] [[Proposal Defense Slides]] >[!info] About the dissertation > This dissertation examines how governments worldwide respond to "information disorder" (disinformation, misinformation, and related phenomena) through a three-paper structure that builds from empirical mapping to causal analysis to emerging frontier challenges. The first paper introduces the Global Disinformation Policy Database (GDPD) and provides the first comprehensive global mapping of how governments define, conceptualize, and regulate problematic information across jurisdictions and over time. The second paper tests hypotheses about how regime type systematically shapes these policy approaches, examining whether democratic and non-democratic governments differ in definition ambiguity, policy instrument preferences, and liability severity. The third paper investigates how policymakers are framing the intersection of artificial intelligence and information disorder, using computational methods to trace how discourse communities and coalitions evolve when a disruptive technology challenges existing policy boundaries. [email protected] | [@activationlayer ](https://bsky.app/profile/activationlayer.org) | [disinfo-policy.org](https://disinfo-policy.org) ## [[Paper 1]] ## [[Paper 2]] ## [[Paper 3]]