Background:In recent years, the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) has been enjoying increasing levels of popularity in evaluation and directly neighboring fields. Its holistic approach to causal data analysis resonates with researchers whose theories posit complex conjunctions of...

A considerable part of the literature on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) demands to pay attention to logical remainders and to manipulate them through various procedures. Worries about the use of so-called don’t cares in the classical Quine-McCluskey algorithm (QMC) have been...