Peer-facing writing. Cite these.
BOOK · 380 PAGES · SSRN 6632960 · 22 APRIL 2026
Fairness as Foundation
A. N. M. Nuruddin. The full argument: why governance failure is
architectural, what structural fairness is, and how a constitution would have to be
built to satisfy it. Chapter Eleven is the Unified Fair Democratic System blueprint;
Chapter Thirteen specifies the Fairness Index and all nine of its formulae. Each part
states what it cannot do.
Nuruddin, A. N. M. (2026). Fairness as Foundation: A Complete Architecture for Structurally Fair Governance. SSRN, 22 April 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6632960
PAPER · 41 PAGES · FOUR AUTHORS
The Meta-Right to Structural Fairness
Rebuilding Governance for Transitional Democracies through Equitism.
Nuruddin with Md. Fardin Labib (Criminology, University of Dhaka), Md. Amir Hossen
(Sociology, SUST) and Mumtarin Aktar Meem (Public Administration, BUP). The argument
from the Meta-Right through Equitism and Fairocracy to the UFDS. A conceptual and
normative paper: it compares Bangladesh with Tunisia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, and makes
no empirical claims.
PAPER · 13 PAGES
Fairness as a Meta-Norm
Structural Legitimacy and the Meta-Right to Fair Institutions. A. N. M.
Nuruddin. Political philosophy has long asked when an institution may claim authority
over free and equal persons, and has answered from within institutions rather than
prior to them. This paper argues the prior question is the one that matters: legitimacy
is a property of institutional design, not only of decisions and procedures. It engages
Rawls, Scanlon, Habermas, Raz, Pettit and Fricker.