“…The Progresa results also have important implications for the mass policy feedback literature that focuses on political participation and government support. The existing mass policy feedback literature establishes that transferred resources can boost the capacity to participate in political and civic activities (Campbell, 2003;McGuire et al, 2021;Mettler, 2002Mettler, , 2005Schober, 2019;Shore, 2014), create incentives to defend the policy (Campbell, 2003;Pierson, 1993), increase the likelihood that organizations will mobilize beneficiaries (Campbell, 2003), and boost political efficacy (Hunter & Sugiyama, 2014;Jacobs et al, 2021). Just as transferred resources create multiple political mechanisms (i.e., political feeds) for beneficiaries to increase political participation and support for the policy providers, transferred resources generate economic mechanisms that affect consumption behavior in the mass public and subsequent policy outcomes.…”