Upgrading an old QCA study to make it more transparent and reproducible using R Markdown

In 2006, an article on the causes of resignations and non-resignations of federal ministers in Germany was published, which included one of us, Ingo, as one of three co-authors (Fischer, Kaiser, and Rohlfing 2006). As part of the empirical analysis, the article uses Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to derive the conditions under which ministers who are under pressure to resign do resign or stay in office. In this contribution to the symposium, we explain why we returned to the original QCA analysis after more than 15 years and how we enhanced its transparency and reproducibility by redoing it using R Markdown.