Thanks to Mario Callegaro (whose paper I too hastily criticised!), an excellent criticism of polling in Italy available at Sociologica.
According to the law on electoral polling, no opinion polls are to be published (or rather, “disseminated”) within the last fifteen days of the campaign. I presume the intent is so that voters aren’t influenced by polling and bounced into one of the two main effects (the band-wagon and under-dog effects respectively).
Of course, this only [...]