de Julio; Tejada was scheduled to run from the Seville list for the Senate. When leaders of the alliance declared themselves faithful to the thought of Franco he replied in public that Franco was the greatest ever enemy of Carlism and withdrew. In one of his last interviews he expressed anxiety about forthcoming partidocracia. Reception and legacy In the post-war Spain Tejada gained prominence principally as a theorist of law; present day scholars either suggest that Francoist setting provided a favorable background for domination of iusnaturalismo against other schools, or bluntly claim that Neoescolástica was the regime's means of auto-legitimization, enforced and disguised as "pluralism". His writings on history of political thought were appreciated if could have been presented as picturing the regime as ultimate climax of Hispanic tradition, while Traditionalist theory of politics – acceptable in the 1950s – when assuming a decisively Carlist flavor was clearly unwelcome in the 1970s. During and after the Second Restoration Tejada's opus went dramatically out of fashion; already by the end of his life he was invoked in the press as a ridiculous fanatic who did not even merit a response, while later – among occasional courteous references – he was venomously denounced as "distinguida personalidad del franquismo". In 1986 Gabriella Pèrcopo co-founded Fundación Francisco Elías de Tejada, which pays tribute to his thought by promoting Hispanic studies. Two institutions he set up, Centro Zumalacárregui and Asociación "Felipe II", are active until today, organizing conferences and issuing own publications; some of these initiatives are supported financially by Ministry of Education and Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas. RACMYP holds also a massive Tejada's library. Already in 1977 Tejada lamented that Spanish universities were becoming mimetic replicas of the European ones; some claim that indeed, in the 1980s and 1990s Traditionalism as scientific school was almost entirely eradicated from Spanish academic realm, though they also point to a number of active scholars who might be considered either Tejada's disciples or heavily influenced by his thought. Beyond the Hispanic and Lusitanian realm it hardly made an impact, though there are exceptions. Bibliography on Elías is nearing a hundred titles. The key one is a monograph by Miguel Ayuso (1994); apart from three other volumes, the remaining titles are articles fathered mostly by his followers and published in specialized reviews. The 2008 anniversary of Tejada's death produced a few memorial articles ranging from Chile