Pollster · Academic

University of Maryland Program for Public Consultation

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 1
Latest poll ended: March 19, 2026

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

The Program for Public Consultation (PPC) says on its website that it was set up to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and runs public consultation surveys at all levels of government, and it describes itself as part of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.¹ Its team page names Steven Kull as director and says he is also president of Voice of the People, where several other PPC staff members also work.² WorldPublicOpinion.org, which says PPC manages it, describes PPC as formerly the Center on Policy Attitudes, established in 1992, while a sidebar on the same page gives the former name as the Program for International Policy Attitudes.³

Kind: Academic¹
Founded: 1992³

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Part of

University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Its About page says PPC is part of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and its March 2026 release describes it as affiliated with that school.^1,4

Polls regularly for

Voice of the People. Voice of the People, a nonprofit that calls itself nonpartisan and whose president is PPC director Steven Kull, says it partners with PPC, and its 2026 Common Ground page says PPC conducted the national surveys behind it, February 11 to March 19, 2026, with 3,709 Americans.^2,5,6

Fieldwork or panel by

QuantifyAI. Its methodology page says QuantifyAI manages sample collection under PPC oversight and removes duplicate respondents and bots, and its March 2026 release says the sample came from online opt-in panels including Cint, Dynata and Prodege.^4,7

Led by

Steven Kull. Its team page names Steven Kull as director of PPC.²

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. Its page on the 2026 Common Ground in the Battlegrounds series says none of the entities behind the project, PPC among them, advocates policy positions or endorses candidates; the pages read do not say whether it accepts work from candidates or parties. This rests on its own description.⁸

Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁹.

§4Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	With	Paid for by	Sample
March 11–March 19, 2026	Job approval · Congress	Disapprove 60 · Approve 40			1,200 A

§5What we looked for and didn't find

PPC's own About and team pages give no founding year; 1992 comes from WorldPublicOpinion.org, which names the predecessor two different ways, and the year PPC took its current name was not found.
No funder is named on the pages read, including the March 2026 release and the Common Ground in the Battlegrounds page.
No standing news partner was found. The University of Maryland Civic Innovation Center is named as a partner on its March 2026 release and its Common Ground in the Battlegrounds series but is not recorded as a separate relationship.
The methodology page refers to panel companies without naming them; Cint, Dynata and Prodege are named only on the March 2026 release read.
Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action or retraction concerning PPC; aggregator statements about excluding or reweighting its polls are gathered in a separate sweep and were not searched here.