De ciencias sociales y ángeles custodios: la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas bajo la guerra y la autarquía.

Abstract

The Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, an institu-tion of Liberal roots which had been very active in the second half of the 19th Century and the first decades of the 20th, languished steadily since the early 1930s. Divided in two by the Spanish Civil War, the Academy lost one-third of its membership during the conflict and in the early post-war years, when Republican acade-micians were purged. Most academicians supported the military rising and joined the rebel war effort by ellaborating juridical re-ports against the Republican Government which had a certain im-pact on political and intellectual circles in democratic countries. During the Franco régime, the Academy was eclipsed by new cultural and political institutions, such as the Instituto de España, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and the Instituto de Estudios Políticos. By 1948, the institution underwent what an academician of the time called «a period of decline».